The Dutch hardly got a touch in the first 20 minutes and it was no surprise when the Germans opened the scoring, Allofs converting the rebound after a ferocious Schuster shot crashed back off a post.
Arsenal lead before Brighton had hardly had a touch.
Wayne Rooney has hardly had a touch in the last 10 minutes or so.
The Polish striker hardly got a touch when his Dortmund side suffered a 2-1 defeawayway to Arsenal in November 2011.
He had hardly had a touch until now, but now turns a man and curls the ball into the corner.
Levante could hardly register a touch and found itself 3-0 down before the 30-minute mark.
"It's worth remembering that current laws were introduced by Margaret Thatcher, who was hardly a soft touch," says Dr Glynne Williams, senior lecturer in industrial relations at Leicester's School of Management.
My symptoms were hardly exotic: mild vertigo, a touch of indigestion, light-headedness, not exactly grounds for an all points bulletin.
From the moment Mascherano began the second half with a buccaneering run from his own half into the United penalty area, to the 54th-minute shot from Messi that restored Barcelona's lead, United were hardly able to get a touch of the ball.
